1/ Hot take: Very often I think Computational Social Science (my field) is useful more for the training and how it teaches you to think than the methods.https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/1113850007248097280 …
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2/ Don't get me wrong, the methods *are* useful. But the years of training and experimentation that force you to constantly think about near-decomposable processes which have endlessly surprising and emergent effects irrevocably improves and expands your thinking and perception.
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3/ I think this is true in all scholarly fields, but the weight of methodological value vs thinking-as-a-process value may be more skewed to the latter for CSS than in most fields. (Although, that may be changing.)https://twitter.com/seanjtaylor/status/1113475247431278593 …
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Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylorSome of the most exciting work at Facebook in the last year: combining expensive sources of measurement (A/B tests) with much cheaper sources (offline simulations) in order to optimize policies. Great work@_bletham_ and@eytan! https://ai.facebook.com/blog/online-and-offline-tests-to-improve-news-feed-ranking/ … pic.twitter.com/BkLpjmyzm2Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
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Oh really? I didn't know that but it makes obvious sense.
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I think that's really what motivated my OP, which was mostly a reaction to
@seanjtaylor's use of "abandoned." For us and others, it was and is still active (as@EpiEllie commented). But, it really was too hyped.https://twitter.com/seanjtaylor/status/1113476519987269644 …💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 added,
Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylorI think ultimately this methodology could help unlock the promise of agent-based models (ABMs), an older line of research that has been mostly abandoned. If we learn a model of how ABM simulations map to to real empirical results, they may stop being toys.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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We didn't have a winter per se. But, I've run into several people at conferences now who say things like, "oh yea, I remember that was really popular at conferences a while ago, but not anymore." The embers continue to burn though!
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That's kinda why I'm excited. I think we'll enjoy renewed interest as their hype-cycle hits the dip stage.
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